Closing up for the fourth week in a row the nasdaq once again closing at another high and lets take a look whats been happening in asia overnight markets in japan and south korea are closed for public holidays. You did have the china markets open with the shanghai markets being closed after a week long holiday. That index was up by. 7 of a percent. In europe this morning in some of the lerl i traearly trading, like things are relatively flat. Slight declines, very slight declines in germany and france the ftse down. Spain is up by. 7 of a percent finally, check out crude oil prices and youre going to see that right now it looks like wti is down by by 10 cents still below 50 a barrel at 49. 20. Thanksgiving in canada. Today unless someone is playing a joke on me they tweeted that in there i dont know what that means exactly. Is it the same they didnt have. Turkeys, pilgrims thats our holiday, isnt it . One of ours. Come on, joe. It can be a totally different reason to give thanks maybe.
Homework to students, instead asking parents to spend quality time with their kids. How much homework is too much . Should schools eliminate homework . We have special lines for todays question. Parents can call 2027488000. Teachers can call 2027488001. All others can call 2027488002. You can also reach us on social and also onitter facebook. Sent home tot was secondgrade students in texas sparked a debate about how much number is too much. Thats how much homework is too much. Said after Much Research the summer, im trying something new. Ofework will only consist work you are child did not finish during the school day. That is the note that went home to some secondgrade students in texas, sparking a debate as to how much homework is too much. A debate that is playing out in the headlines, including from the Washington Post. Out parents are just opting saying this was a moment, a fiery moment in the debate over education and how students spend their time. Arents can call 2027488000 teac
A barrel. Up a gain three quarters of one percent. Our road map today starts with netflix. Shares down big this morning thanks to weak guidance. What Ceo Reed Hastings had to say about the companys earnings. Goldman sachs ceo blaming the challenging operator environment for less than stellar earnings. What you need to know from that report coming up. Also dig into earnings from dow components Johnson Johnson and United Health care. Lets begin with netflix. Shares are falling in the premarket despite Quarterly Results that beat the street. The company issuing weaker than expected subscriber guidance for the Current Quarter especially on the international front. Meantime ibm out with q 1 results. Jim, lets start with netflix. You said last night you expected downgrades to come, low and behold you have seven firms this morning at least cutting their price targets. Many reaffirming their positions as buys, but taking their price targets down. You had bob on last night. That was fantastic a
Rolled and next thing i knew we were pushing out the emergency exit and i was outside and there were people screaming and bleeding and we helped them out and theyre okay now. 7 train cars flew off the track. Some cars ending up on their sides. Others landing mostly upright. Rail traffic between new york and philadelphia is shutdown today as the investigation continues. Philadelphia mayor said theres no way that Train Service is going through philly in the next week. Right. This is you know its always horrific and tragic to see this but we all take that train at some point. Its home to everybody. We go to d. C. A lot of us take the train. Yeah we choose the train over the airlines because generally youre far more certain to get there on time. Its nice. This was the regional. This was the northeast regional. Still. Still. Its huge and packed. Same track. We all go through there and baltimore. By far the most heavily travelled rail. This is inevitably going to raise questions about spendi
Beating consensus, short of expectations, but cook says hes not worried. Microsoft missing consensus. Saying the dpaen is still in the midst of a bold and disciplined effort to focus business. Boeing and delta beat expectations, deltas ceo on this network this morning commenting on the middle east. Pepsi came in on a streak despite a decline in carbonated drink sales. Apple had earnings of 1. 28, a nickel above. Just shy of consensus. Ipad sales came in low of expectations, same for the current quarter, and last night, tim cook spoke about sales on the Conference Call. Sales met the expectations, but they did not meet yours. Our sales were gated in part by channel inventory and market softness in certain parts of the world. Two consecutive quarters up double digits, 12. 7 this time, down 9, and two years ago, ipads up 9300 . Right. I want to call this is transition story. We watch tv shows, we watch them on this series, like, that goes on, say 13, 14 show, and theres an episode where n